Ethnobotany and Conservation of Biocultural Diversity. Adv Econ Bot (15) intermountain "Red Phlox" ~Phlox drummondii~

"Red Phlox" ~Phlox drummondii~

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The species of Myrceugenia are trees and shrubs that grow in moderately cool

The Lecythidaceae is one of the ecologically most important families of trees thorughout Amazonia

Ethnobotany and Conservation of Biocultural Diversity. Adv Econ Bot (15) intermountain "Red Phlox" ~Phlox drummondii~The field of ethnobotany (and more generally ethnobiology) traces its roots to two distinct research traditions: a long standing interest in how human societies around the world make use of plants (and animals) in their local environments; and a more recent (mid 1950's onward) interest in how humans perceive, classify, and name the natural world. Ethnobotany and Conservation of Biocultural Diversity is based in part on a symposium by the same title